Journal article

Publication year: 2020

Pages: 607-632

Journal: Journal of Slavic Studies

Volume number: 65

Issue number: 4

ISSN: 0044-3506

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1515/slaw-2020-0028

Publisher: De Gruyter

Abstract: 
Perspectives on the lives of migrants in their host countries tend to be bicultural, which is at odds with the multiethnic reality of British industrial cities, especially with London's low-paid sector. This paper proposes migrant literature as an antidote to bicultural restrictions. It endeavors to provide a comparative reading of writings by Polish migrant authors about interactions with other migrants in Britain and other migrant writers' perceptions of Poles. The corpus consists of post-accession texts and includes, among others, books by A. M. Bakalar, Gosia Brzezinska, Grzegorz Kopaczewski, Daniel Koziarski, Adam Miklasz, Jarek Sepek, and Daniel Zuchowski on the one hand, and Marina Lewycka and Aleksandrs Rugens (alias Vilis Lacitis alias William B. Foreignerski), on the other. Given that the authors in question draw on diverse-Polish, British, Ukrainian, Latvian, and other East European-traditions of cultural and/or economic Othering, this paper scrutinizes both the mutual Orientalizing tendencies and the transnationalizing trajectories involved.

Harvard Citation style: Uffelmann, D. (2020) Polen unter anderen. Literarische Außen- und Innenansichten der polnischen Arbeitsmigration in Großbritannien seit 2004, Zeitschrift für Slawistik, 65(4), pp. 607-632. https://doi.org/10.1515/slaw-2020-0028

APA Citation style: Uffelmann, D. (2020). Polen unter anderen. Literarische Außen- und Innenansichten der polnischen Arbeitsmigration in Großbritannien seit 2004. Zeitschrift für Slawistik. 65(4), 607-632. https://doi.org/10.1515/slaw-2020-0028